Alphabet has been “aggressively pursuing” the Defense Department’s (DoD) Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract, the New York Times reported earlier this week, noting that the organization viewed it as a priority. The initiative – a successor to the Pentagon’s failed ‘war cloud’ project – apparently aims to use “artificial …
Read More »AT&T accused of coercing white employees to conform to ‘diversity & inclusion programming’ or face sanctions
The explosive claim comes from Christopher Rufo, a prominent opponent of critical race theory (CRT) and its increasing acceptance as the basis for fighting racial injustices in the US. CRT views US society as inherently racist and beneficial to white people, including those who are not consciously racist themselves. Advocates …
Read More »WATCH: City employees in New York march across Brooklyn Bridge, stall traffic, in protest against Covid-19 vaccine mandate
Footage of the protest posted Monday on social media shows long streams of workers marching across the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan, shutting down traffic. The clips show the demonstrators chanting as they walked with such messages as “F*** Bill de Blasio,” “Hold the line,” “No vaccine mandates” and “Wake up New …
Read More »‘Get Breitbart out of News Tab’: Facebook employees were hostile towards BLM reports by conservative outlets, leaked docs reveal
In a message titled “Get Breitbart out of News Tab” and posted on the company’s racial-justice chat board last year, an unidentified employee shared screenshots of BLM-related headlines from the news outlet that, they said, were “emblematic of a concerted effort at Breitbart and similarly hyperpartisan sources” to “paint Black …
Read More »US labor chaos continues as 10,000 John Deere employees announce strike
The United Auto Workers (UAW) union announced the strike on Thursday morning, which will affect over a dozen plants for John Deere. The company, based out of Moline, Illinois, has not faced a strike for 35 years. “Our members at John Deere strike for the ability to earn a decent …
Read More »Netflix defends Chappelle comedy special from protests as employees plan walkout over ‘transphobic’ jokes
“We know that a number of you have been left angry, disappointed and hurt by our decision to put Dave Chappelle’s latest special on Netflix,” Sarandos wrote in a company-wide email, according to Variety. Sarandos went on to say he understood the activists were concerned Chappelle’s jokes could somehow lead …
Read More »Boeing tells all US employees to get their Covid-19 shots by December 8, to comply with Biden’s order for federal contractors
“Boeing is requiring its US-based employees to either show proof of vaccination or have an approved reasonable accommodation (based on a disability or sincerely held religious belief) by Dec. 8,” the company said in a statement to media outlets on Tuesday, adding the decision is to “ensure compliance with President …
Read More »Facebook plunged into chaos as employees ‘CAN’T ACCESS’ servers – or even their workspaces
As the major Facebook outage dragged into hours, a Reddit poster claiming to be a member of the “recovery/investigation team” wrote the companywide snafu was indeed a “global outage for all FB-related services/infra[structure]” and explained that while repairs were underway, “the people with physical access is [sic] separate from the …
Read More »At explicit content site OnlyFans, ex-employees kept access to private customer information, including ID & credit cards – reports
OnlyFans is used mostly, but not exclusively, by amateur sex workers to sell pornographic content. The platform uses Zendesk to track and respond to customer support requests, from both creators who post content and customers who pay for it. However, multiple people continued to have access to the software – …
Read More »Unvaccinated Delta Air Lines employees to be charged $200 extra per month in health insurance to ‘cover Covid costs’
In a memo to staff on Wednesday, CEO Ed Bastian said the “surcharge will be necessary to address the financial risk the decision to not vaccinate is creating for our company.” Bastian claimed that the “average hospital stay for COVID-19 has cost Delta $50,000 per person” and that, “in recent …
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